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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year i S 67, by 

Hugh Cameron, 
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia. 






" From the loud thunderstorm of war, 
Not man alone hath called ye forth, 
But He, the God of all the earth." 

Whlttier. 



THE TROUBLESOME TRIO. 



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" The end approaches — that sublime event, 
The people rallying to their President, 
Ere long the world shall see. A nation then 
Not ruled by tyrant vampires— but by men 
In one blest Union all good hearts shall bind, 
The glory of itself — the admiration of mankind !" 



Thus B. B. F indulged the muse, till he prophetic grew. 

His lines provoked progressive wrath — provoked proscrip- 
tion, too. 

Great men bv little words made mad inveighed the poet 
old; 

Denounced free thought, audacitv — truth telling, treason 
bold. 

In fierce derision Greely hissed "ye poet laureate " 

" Occasion'l" echoes in the twist each other emulate ; 



6 THE TROUBLESOME TRIO. 

Then ye progressive 39th, good judges of a crime, 
Cut off the official head of him who had indulged in rhyme. 
And now, no doubt, official heads are held in check with awe 
Of reconstructive progress men who manufacture law. 
No doubt ye poet, too, will sing a reconstruction song, 
When he anew his harp does string, in favor of the strong ; 
But ere the muses change their tune, let. me prolong the 

strain, 
In hope that ye immortal gods your freedom may retain. 

Ye Gods ! I'd grieve to see the muse divested of her gear, 

Or lured to barter her birthright by averice or fear, 

As I do grieve to see those things, which much resemble men, 

Bowed 'neath a hateful party yoke — kept in a party pen — 

Degraded bv the party lash, they tremble at its call, 

And straight, to do its dirty work, into the harness crawl. 

O! unbought muse help me to sing a tune as bold and tree 
As any by our fathers sung — French, Bangor, or Dundee — 
Our fathers noblv bore their part; but with what care do we 
Guard that which they bequeathed to us for our posterity ? 
For him, whom falsehood styled a king, usurper, apostate, 
Help me acceptably to sing as second laureate. 



THE TROUBLESOME TRIO. 

Mv predecessor's lofty strains reached a "sublime event," 
To hope for which, with earnest faith, I'm forced to be 

content ; 
But as I think of his sad fate — his loss of " bread'nd butter" — 
My indignation is too great in pious words to utt'r ; 
But what care 1 for power and fate, for place or "bread- 
'nd butter," 
A simple Yankee laureate the truth I'll boldv utter. 

The patriot for whom I sing still guides the ship of State, 
Though furiously he's been assailed by Envy, Malice, Hate. 
This Trio having cursed mankind since first the world 

began. 
May either be a Copperhead or Black Republican. 
Ere Lincoln had embarked upon his presidential trip. 
These Fiends had turned the southern mind against our 

gallant ship ; 
They had procured conspiracies against the nation's life ; 
Had nerved the vile assassin's arm and furnished him the 

knife; 

But gen'rous fate then interposed and turned their blade 
aside, 

And gave to us four years of war to rectify our pride. 



8 THE TROUBLESOME TRIO. 

The war produced abundant food on which these Fiends 
have fed, 

They never very much enjoyed the field where heroes 
bled, 

But lurked about the cotton ports and lodged with Copper- 
heads, 

Conscripting officers they w T ere pursuing mountain* Feds ; 

They plied their trade extensively at Libby and Belle Isle ; 

But mercy closed these slaughter pens and mercy those 
revile. 

At length, by foul conspiracy and the assassin's hand, 

Our very souls were bowed in grief and mourning draped 
the land. 

While thus we were with grief oppressed, and gloom the 
land did fill, 

These Fiends conspired to fix their crime on those they 
sought to kill. 

At Johnson and at Seward they aimed their most destruc- 
tive shafts ; 



;: ' Union men in Arkansas and other Southern States who Hed to the 
mountains to escape the conscription. 



THE TROUBLESOME TRIO. 9 

On Sumner, Stevens, and Ben. Wade they made their largest 

drafts ; 
They tried to make the people think that Johnson first 

conspired 
Against his most devoted friend whose place they all desired : 
Thev turned the northern heart away from patriot as true 
As ever breathed the mountain air or drank the mountain 

dew ; 
Yet still the ship of State he guides, determined not to 

yield, 
The spirit of our Martyred Chief sustains him and will 
shield. 



Can we forget who firmly stood by Lincoln in the fight, 
Who boldly draged the base designs of traitors to the light, 
Who broke the spell by which they held the Senate in 

control ? 
Who of our chieftains placed his name the highest on the 

scroll ? 
A voice from Tennessee replies, 'twas our distinguished son 
W T ho firmly stood bv Lincoln's side when first the war 

begun ; 
'Twas our " plebeian" Senator who boldly dared defy 



io THE TROUBLESOME TRIO. 

The mad secession element in Senate in July ; 

'Twas he who broke the fatal spell that held the nation 
bound — 

His words went home to every heart and traitors did con- 
found ; 

He stood like Cicero among his honorable peers, 

Their guilty consciences he wrung and roused their guiltv 
fears. 

Our late lamented President he faithfullv sustained ; 

Against the foe he took the field, contended for and gained ; 

He met the rebels manfully while deadly arms they bore — 

He meets them still more manfully as rebels now no more. 

His predecessor firmly held the helm which he now holds 

Beneath the flag, till vict'ry perched upon its glorious folds. 

Beneath that flag he meekly bows, still trusting in his God, 

Acknowledging the hand that holds and plies the chasten- 
ing rod ; 

Most constantly he keeps his post, though round him rage 
the storms, 

And o'er the CONSTITUTION SHIP dash radical 
reforms ; 

Above him floats OUR BRAVE OLD FLAG, still bearing 
all the stars, 



THE TROUBLESOME TRIO. M 

As proudly now as when we bore it in secession wars. 
God bless our captain and our ship— protect its mate and 

crew ; 
Let all in safety reach the port who to the flag are true. 
O, God ! preserve the flag obtained by patriot's blood and 

scars — 
Help us to hand it down unstained, retaining all the stars. 
And now as I must close my theme, submit my feeble verse, 
I'll ask you all to join with me the Trio to disperse : 

Let ENVYgo with Sumner home and learn how to conduct 

Send Malice to the Keystone State to help Thad. recon- 
struct — 
And Hate, I think, we may divide with great propriety 
'Twixt Buck-Eye Ben. and Ben. of ccrked-up notorietv. 




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